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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

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[–] KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Time to hack the vending machine snd delete all the partitions off of it and render it unusable

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why bother hacking it? Just destroy it.

[–] KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but this is the University of Waterloo we're talking about here. This hit Canadian mainstream media CTV News so I know that. Also for an university specializing in Engineering and Mathematics there's a shit ton of cameras around

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Also, I'm not sure if this is the same in Canada as the US, but I'm pretty sure that in many cases, vandalism is considered a much lesser crime than unauthorized computer tampering/hacking